The Morning Brew

Software

• Small Basic : The newest, leanest and the meanest is here! – The Small Basic team announce the release of v0.5 which adds in their most requested features along with bugfixes
• MVVM light toolkit (Silverlight edition) posted – Laurent Bugnion announces the release of his Model-View-ViewModel toolkit for Silverlight. This article also gives a run through it in use

Information

• First look at debugging .NET 4.0 dumps in Visual Studio 2010 – Tess Ferrandez takes a good look at the support for working with .NET 4 debug dumps in the new Visual Studio Beta, looking at the pros and cons of working in VS over windbg
• Resisting Dependency Injection – Patrick Kua looks at a number of things that code can do which makes it harder to do Dependency injection
• LLVM – the future? – Granville Barnett starts off a new blog focusing on lower level things with an opening post on Low Level Virtual Machines
• Announcing FabrikamShipping, in-depth semi-realistic sample for Geneva Framework – ‘Vibro’ shares the announcement of a Geneva sample application which has a more real world slant
• The Joel Test – Updated for 2010 – Bill Tudor suggests an updated set of criteria for the Joel Test in 2010
• Functional Programming Battles GOTOzilla – K. Scott Allen responds to a recent post from Steve Wellens and some of the comments to that post surrounding the use of GOTO in code
• System.Data.OracleClient Update – ADO.NET team talks about their future roadmap and where the System.Data.OracleClient does (or more accuratly, does not) fit in
• Isolating Dependencies in Tests Using Mocks and Stubs – Claudio Lasalla talks about how you can ensure that your unit tests are real unit tests by using mocks and stubs. Code samples included with the article
• You can do the TODOs today too! – Bertrand Le Roy talks about the TODO comments, a much used, and often much forgotten about, feature

Community

• Easy deadlock detection- get a free license for Typemock’s Racer launch – Typemock are offering bloggers free licenses for their new product TypeMock Racer, a deadlock and concurrency testing tool. All you have to do is review their product.

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